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I'm just researching my family history, I was born in Hough Lane, Lower Broughton, Salford. I cant find this address? Apparently it was above some shops? Has it been demolished, has anyone any pictures or photos I am going back over 45 years.

A memory of Salford in 1965 by Tracey Dent

My great,great grandfather, Thomas Hugill, was the Sexton of the North Cemetery for over 30 years until his death in 1896. I have just visited the site and found that the half the cemetery had been ...Read more

A memory of West View in 1890 by Glenda Hall

Hi, a name search brought me to your link so I thought I'd write in with a request. I'm trying to track down information about my great grandmother who lived in Dumfries between 1900 and 1915. My Granny, Mary Ann ...Read more

A memory of Kelloholm in 1920 by Jo Solly

I live in Newcastle, NSW, Australia. My relative, William Phillips was born in Neath and lived at 14 Company Street, Llantwit Fardre when married. He was a collier. He married 6/1875 Rachel Thomas (b.18/7/1852 Pontypridd ...Read more

A memory of Neath in 1880 by Kay Armstrong

Reading the other memories I remembered a group of us watching - oh what was his name - an artistic painter, doing up the Chocolate Box opposite the Chamberlayne Arms on the corner of Blenheim Road and High Street, and we watched ...Read more

A memory of Eastleigh in 1946 by John Scott

I was born in No 5 The Coastguards at Sizewell in 1950 (before they put another house on the end). My parents were teachers and I had two sisters and a brother. I played all along the front and in the big sand pit in front of the ...Read more

A memory of Sizewell in 1950 by Charles Walker

My father, Dudley David Wright, who lived in a poor section of Grimsby with his foster mother Nellie Fields and was born in 1924 told me of summers he spent in Dogdyke on a farm owned by a Mrs Vintner. Another person who summered ...Read more

A memory of Dogdyke in 1930 by Josephine Wright

This is not a memory but if anyone has any information about the Eaton Hall Emergency Maternity Hospital, Eaton Road, East Retford, Notts, I would be very grateful to hear from ...Read more

A memory of Eaton in 1940 by Margaret Reynolds

I remember this bridge very well. Brought up in MD from 1938 until I left to join the Royal Navy in 1955. We, my brother Tony and Brian Roylance, spent many happy hours in the vicinity especially fishing for "Sticklebacks" ...Read more

A memory of Market Drayton in 1940 by Victor Richards

My memories as a son of a daughter of the valleys are: Rugby allowed in for free a half time Trains, lying in bed hearing the clang of the wagons moving coal and steel to and from the works Armageddon when the ...Read more

A memory of Ebbw Vale in 1952 by Bob Morgan